Visualization

Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.

Maps and charts for what is happening in Iran

Reuters Graphics has a feed of maps and charts for updates on Iran.…

Mapping what makes us happy

In 2017, researchers asked study participants via MTurk to list three happy moments…

Oil supply chain slowdown

The New York Times mapped the traffic difference at the Strait of Hormuz,…

Marine traffic through the Strait of Hormus

Normally there is a steady flow of ships through the strait, but when…

Drones and modern warfare in Ukraine

With hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian drone flights every month, countries have had…

Release your lantern

In celebration of the lunar new year, many people release a lantern into…

Unusual luck for streamers in the crypto casino Stake

For Businessweek, Cecilia D’Anastasio, Olivia Solon, and Leon Yin analyzed the unusual luck…

Famous chess matches visualized as 3-D wireframes

Imagine points for each piece on a chessboard. They move to x-y positions…

Visual catalog of Isotype examples

Isotype, or International System of Typographic Picture Education, is a picture language used…

Illustrated engineering in everyday objects

Mechanical Pencil is a project by Bryan Macomber that illustrates the mechanical bits…

Mysteries of women’s clothing sizes

The challenges continue for women who want clothes that fit properly. For the…

Map of countries aligning with China

Using an analysis from Focaldata, the Guardian used the angled arrow approach to…

Geopolitical axis between the United States and China

Focaldata calculated United Nations voting patterns by country, relative to the United States…

Invalidated tariffs

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the administration’s “emergency” tariffs to be illegal. This…

Maps show not enough electricity in Cuba

For Bloomberg, Krishna Karra and Stephen Wicary map blackouts in Cuba due to…

Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases

ProPublica and the Texas Tribune report on the spike of claims over the…

Rise of Bad Bunny

For Reuters, Ally J. Levine and Tiana McGee illustrate and chart the rise:…

Jeffrey Epstein’s network via 1.4m emails

With the most recent Epstein release, the Economist collaborated with the folks who…